The new charges, filed yesterday, accuse Jones of shooting Devitt multiple times and leaving him
for dead at a mobile-home park in Washington Township in what investigators believe was a
robbery.

Franklin County Sheriff Zach Scott said detectives with his office spent the last month checking
out Jones’ version of events and reviewing the collected forensic evidence.

“All those avenues ended up pointing right back to our suspect we had in custody,” he said
yesterday.

Devitt had been running his own car service since he started Hilliard Hometown Taxi in 2010. He
had since changed the name to Black Car of Columbus and was picking up customers who called his
cellphone or requested a ride through an on-demand car-service app.

His body was found in the Hayden Heights Mobile Home Park, 5501 Cosgray Rd., but his GMC
Suburban was missing.

Columbus police officers patrolling area motels after the slaying spotted the SUV on Feb. 7 at
the America’s Best Value Inn, 1313 W. St. James Lutheran Lane, off I-70 at the Hilliard-Rome Road
exit.

Jones was arrested there.

He was indicted on Feb. 14 on the theft and tampering charges. He also is awaiting trial in an
unrelated gun and drug case from last year.

The tampering charges allege that he removed evidence, including shell casings, from the scene
where Devitt was killed.

Scott said Devitt and Jones may have known each other. Investigators don’t believe that Devitt
was engaged in anything illegal, Scott said. He was likely just trying to help Jones out.

Devitt’s wife, Wendy, said her husband did know Jones and gave him rides.

“Mostly we’re relieved to know that there’s not other people coming over the hill. They got the
guy,” she told WBNS-TV (Channel 10).

She said Jones seemed to have his share of troubles. “But I never got the feeling he was overly
dangerous,” she said.

Jones has a history of felony convictions for crimes that include theft, menacing and drug
possession. He has lived on the West Side in recent years but is listed as homeless in the latest
court records.